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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : variant of Kampen.
  • English (Essex; of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of several places in Pas-de-Calais and elsewhere in France named Campagne, or from a Norman form of a regional name from Champagne in northeastern France.

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